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This volume takes a typological approach to clause chaining, a fascinating feature of the grammar of hundreds of languages used to organize discourse and to foreground or background events and participants. It examines general issues and offers case studies of clause chaining and related phenomena in a range of languages.
List of contents
- 1: Hannah S. Sarvasy and Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Clause chaining in the languages of the world in typological perspective
- Part I. General issues in clause chaining
- 2: Matthew K. Gordon: Prosody in clause chaining constructions
- 3: Hannah S. Sarvasy and Soonja Choi: The acquisition of clause chaining
- 4: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Clause chaining and switch-reference in language contact and language history
- Part II. Clause chaining in languages of New Guinea
- 5: Lourens de Vries: Clause chaining in Greater Awyu languages of West Papua
- 6: Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald: Clause chaining and switch-reference in Ndu languages
- 7: Hannah S. Sarvasy: Clause chaining in Finisterre Papuan languages
- 8: Robert L. Bradshaw: Clause chaining and other means of clause linking in Doromu-Koki
- 9: Grant Aiton: Clause chaining in Eibela
- 10: Danielle Barth and Malcolm Ross: Clause chaining in Matukar Panau (Oceanic, Papua New Guinea)
- Part III. Clause chaining in North American Indian languages
- 11: George Aaron Broadwell: Clause chaining in Muskogean languages
- 12: Maziar Toosarvandani: Clause chaining in Uto-Aztecan: A Northern Paiute perspective
- 13: Marianne Mithun: Delineating typological categories: Central Alaskan Yup'ik
- Part IV. Clause chaining in South American Indian languages
- 14: Simon E. Overall: Clause chaining in Aguaruna (Chicham)
- 15: Kristine Stenzel: Clause chaining in East Tukanoan Kotiria and Wa'ikhana: Structural and pragmatic features
- 16: Roberto Zariquiey and Pilar M. Valenzuela: Object-oriented switch-reference in Pano
- 17: Rafael Nonato: Switch-reference and clause chaining in Northern Jê
- Part V. Clause chaining in languages of Eurasia
- 18: Gwendolyn Hyslop: Clause chaining in Kurtöp
- 19: Stephen Watters: Clause chaining in Dzongkha
- 20: Mark W. Post and Yankee Modi: Clause chains and related structures in Macro-Tani languages
- 21: Diana Forker: Clause chaining in Adyghe (West Caucasian)
- 22: Felix Anker: Clause chaining in Tsova-Tush and East Caucasian
- 23: Lars Johanson, Eva A. Csató, and Birsel Karakoç: Clause chaining in Turkic
- 24: Ayhan Aksu-Koç and Hale Ögel-Balaban: The development of clause chaining in Turkish
- 25: Elena Skribnik: Clause chaining in Buryat (North Mongolic)
- 26: Patricia M. Clancy: Clause chains and intonation units in Japanese narratives
- Part VI. Clause chaining in languages of Eastern and Southern Africa
- 27: Mengistu Amberber: The Amharic converb in clause chaining
- 28: Yvonne Treis and Martine Vanhove: Converb constructions and clause chaining in Cushitic
- 29: Kristina Riedel and Hannah Gibson: Clause chaining in Bantu languages
About the author
Hannah S. Sarvasy is Senior Researcher at the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development at Western Sydney University. Her research combines fieldwork on Papuan, Atlantic and other languages, child language acquisition research, and psycholinguistic experimentation. She is the author of
A Grammar of Nungon: A Papuan Language of Northeast New Guinea (Brill, 2017), among other volumes, and led a Nungon-speaking team to build the Nungon Child Speech Corpus, one of the largest digitized corpora of child-caregiver interactions in a Papuan language. She has published multiple studies on the grammar, history, acquisition, and processing of clause chains and switch-reference marking.
Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald is Professor, Australian Laureate Fellow, and Head of Research Cluster 'Language and well-being' at the Jawun Centre, Central Queensland University. She is a major authority on languages of the Arawak family, from northern Amazonia, and has written grammars of Bare (1995) and Warekena (1998), plus
A Grammar of Tariana, from Northwest Amazonia (CUP, 2003) and
The Manambu Language of East Sepik, Papua New Guinea (OUP, 2008; paperback 2010), in addition to essays on various typological and areal features of South American and Papuan languages and typological issues including evidentials, classifiers, serial verbs, and language and well-being.
Summary
This volume takes a typological approach to clause chaining, a fascinating feature of the grammar of hundreds of languages used to organize discourse and to foreground or background events and participants. It examines general issues and offers case studies of clause chaining and related phenomena in a range of languages.
